With the emergence of the Java 3D API, the creation of high quality 3D animated graphics for Java applications and applets becomes a possibility, With numerous aspects of the business, science, medic
This volume consists of 14 essays by educators from Europe, the US, and Brazil, who examine the use of class video recordings in pre-service and in-service teacher training. They address teacher profe
"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of critical thinking strategies in pre-service learning environments. It also provides insigh
"This book provides a wide range of frameworks to help teacher educators and other researchers examine the benefits, challenges, and opportunities for employing service-learning as the driving framewo
"This book explores the current efforts in service-learning to engage with diverse communities, specific issues and strengths associated with those communities, and strategies for assessing and reflec
Patel presents a textbook for students at the beginning-to-intermediate level of knowledge about web site development on how to use the Windows Communication Foundation software to create service-
Educators from Europe, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, and the US provide 17 essays on in-service teacher training. They address how to design and conduct it, including planning, delivery, and f
This volume contains 10 articles on healthcare service quality and evaluation, covering healthcare management and decision making, operational research in medicine and health systems, information tech
Quality of service is an essential element of wireless networks, determining the level of performance available to particular users and types of data. This book presents a comprehensive collection of
This work characterizes the latest research on the use of quality of service (QoS) in grid computing, for academicians, engineers, IT professionals, and researchers in fields such as parallel and dist
The quality properties explored in these 16 papers are testability, dependability, maintainability, usability, security, and quality of service. The opening chapters propose a multi-tier framework for
This book offers a collection of recent research outcomes covering most of the popular frameworks and standards used for IT governance and IT service management. Case studies from Australia, New Zeala
The nineteen chapters presented by Protogeros (U. of Macedonia, Greece) constitute a survey of recent advances in software agent and Web service technologies, treating them both as enabling technologi
"This book explores the concept of TPACK in terms of education in general and language teaching in particular. It will assist EFL teachers, both in-service and pre-service professionally and arms them
"This book is intended to present the most recent research associated with the Response to Intervention (RTI) service delivery model. It includes information related to both the positive and negative
This volume compiles 14 articles by education and other specialists from the US, UK, Mexico, and China, who address community engagement program implementation and service learning, with an emphasis o
As educational standards continue to transform, it has become essential for educators and pre-service teachers to receive the support and training necessary to effectively instruct their students and
As cloud technology continues to advance and be utilized, many service providers have begun to employ multiple networks, or cloud federations; however, as the popularity of these federations increases
This reference explores the stakeholders involved in e-government and identifies the stages of growth or service maturity levels and examines the examples and basic discourses of the adoption process
In this resource for teacher educators and pre- and in-service teachers, international contributors describe ways to prepare teachers to use technology in the classroom and to support students' use of
Written principally by academics teaching at American colleges, the 16 papers in this collection offer advice to pre-service teachers on developing online environments that assist students and profess
International contributors in IT security engineering, semantic web, web services, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) present keys theoretical and practical approaches, research lines, and challe
The 23 papers in this collection examine online retail customer behavior, the adoption of mobile services, and business demand for internet service providers and web services. Three of the chapters id
Designed for customer service specialists and IT professionals, this textbook on customer knowledge management in e-business focuses on the business models, frameworks and intelligence architecture th
Editor Scupola (communication, business and information technologies, Roskilde U., Denmark) has compiled these research studies on the management of e-services, providing both information service tech
Fourteen contributions share experiences implementing web service security mechanisms on different platforms, combining architectural styles with web services, and controlling access through authoriza
Computer scientists and related researchers survey examples of the increasing application of information science in selling services of all kinds. In sections on basic concepts and theories, intellige
"This book compiles real-world case studies on successful classroom models and practices to provide rewarding learning environments for students with disabilities. It addresses topics such as behavior
After exploring issues of assessment in higher education institutions' Initial Teacher Education programs (generally in Australia and Britain), education researchers draw on a long-term action res
Editors Dickenson, Keough, and Courduff present readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles focused on the approaches, skills, and methodologies for teachers to use in supp
